Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet
Artist's tip (Two make one): Primary colours: red, yellow, blue — they cannot be mixed from other paints. Secondary colours: orange = red + yellow, green = blue + yellow, purple = red + blue. To find a missing colour, ask: which two primaries are inside this secondary colour?
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- 1.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
- 2.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
- 3.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 4.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
- 6.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 7.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue
- 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
- 10.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 11.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
- 14.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
- 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 17.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
- 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
- 20.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 21.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
- 23.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 25.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 26.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 27.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 28.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 29.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
- 31.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
- 33.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 34.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 35.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
- 37.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 39.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
Answer key
- True
- blue and yellow
- purple
- primary colour
- yellow
- primary colour
- False
- green
- red and blue
- True
- purple
- blue
- yellow
- 3
- blue
- yellow
- False
- orange
- purple
- yellow
- True
- orange
- True
- blue
- 3
- green
- blue
- secondary colour
- False
- purple
- True
- yellow and blue
- secondary colour
- orange
- False
- blue
- False
- False
- False
- yellow
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